No offense but this sounds like you need to level up as a manager. I’ve managed many teams, in-person and remote. Remote is superior in every way, and it’s not even close. One of the reasons it’s better is because it’s harder to hide bad management.
Israel is at fault for spreading those false rumors, yes. Just like Iraq having "weapons of mass destruction". Same people lying to drag the US into unjust wars.
Israel's enemies aren't "terror", they're legitimate resistance to an actual terrorist entity. Israel and the US are the terrorists, not the people defending against them. This latest round of unprovoked attacks only opens the world's eyes even more to this reality.
Israel is surrounded by "enemies" because it's a European colony that was artificially constructed through ethnic cleansing and terror. I'm in the US, and it's crystal clear that Israel is the #1 threat to my way of life. There's a massive population that is done being gaslit about this.
> If the standard is historical continuity, Jews are indigenous to that land. Their sovereignty was interrupted by conquest. It was not invented in the 20th century.
Cool, I guess I need to find wherever my ancestors lived 3000 years ago. Turns out. I have a claim to it still!
Iraq was a quagmire because the US attacked them for no reason at all other than to further Israel's interests. We have no business in the Middle East. Period.
We went into Iraq because we had to station troops in Saudi Arabia in order to defend them against Iraq, and having US troops in 'the holy land' led to Osama Bin Laden leading to 9-11. People say the two aren't connected but if you learn the context at the time they were, just not in the basic way people want to understand situations.
I think this is probably happening, but also there are just a ton of actual Zionists and Israelis in the tech industry. Unfortunately they visit this site regularly and police it against honest reporting about their crimes.
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Making sweeping claims like this without including any links so we can know what you're talking about serves only to poison HN.
That would suggest they respond to claims with counter arguments, as opposed to what they really do which is flag everything they don’t want people to see
You are fucking nuts. If I say "we should help the Iranian people" because you disagree you call it mis-information and further say it should be illegal? I want your opinion to be heard, of course, but let me tell you right now, you're F-ing nuts.
WTF? You cannot comment like this on HN, no matter who you are replying to or what it's about.
HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to raise the standards rather than drag them down. Please show a sincere intent to treat this community and its guidelines with respect if you want to keep participating here.
Do keep in mind that basically every single Israeli goes through military training, which includes training in psychological counter-warfare (hasbara). Even the 'cool' Israelis you know in real life are spies at the beckon-and-call of Israel 24/7.
What I'm trying to say is that this is an intentional part of their strategy. They know what they're doing.
They probably have a small detachment assigned to every popular-ish website. For the long tail, they have bot farms.
What does Zionist actually mean when Israel as a Jewish State has existed for 77 years and seems likely to exist for at least as long. I'm genuinely asking here. People use the word all the time and I just don't understand what they are trying to say.
If you live in the USA you are being incredibly hypocritical as the land was stolen from the Native Americans.
Approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia in the 20th century, primarily as a consequence of the establishment of the State of Israel. Most migrated to Israel. Do they go back to the Arab countries that kicked them out?
As a person indigenous to the Americas, I know very well that this land was stolen and I fully support the land back movement.
Israel replicated the very worst of the genocide of Indigenous Americans in the modern day and continues to do so. Zionism will fall and Israel will go the way of Nazi Germany.
Since Oct 7 2023 Israel has very effectively destroyed Hamas, Hezbollah, and now Iran. They have an incredibly effective military and are VERY strongly motivated because they know that losing means death. Israel is no more likely to fall than the US gives back all land to the Natives.
The entire world has become aware of the true nature of Zionism. Once the propagandized boomers are gone, so will be Israel. Also, considering that rockets are currently raining down on Israel, I don't know how you can claim that they have effectively beat Iran.
Can you explain to me exactly how you predict Israel will "be gone"? And where will all the current population move to? Why would these countries accept millions of people? I don't think you can actually answer these questions because this is a fantasy.
So I don’t have a dog in this fight but if someone came to my house and tried to kill and evict me and posted up in the living room and had to defend against my attacks to reclaim my living room, the logical solution is for them to leave my living room regardless of how long they’ve been squatting there. No need for anybody to die.
I'm in the US, and the this type of histrionic rhetoric no longer flies with us. It's fully up to the Palestinians on what they do with the Zionists, I support their sovereignty 100%.
"I would replace Israel with Palestine and I would have the current population return to their countries of origin." Is extremely "histrionic". You are actually advocating for a genocide against Israel.
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Even if Israeli Jews whose ancestors once lived in Poland were interested in immigrating to Poland, where 90% of Jews were murdered, Poland has not offered them citizenship. Would you like them to disappear?
Do you apply the same logic to all the immigrants from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, etc.? Do you categorically oppose all immigration, or only when it's Jewish families?
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You also mostly talk about Israel (only from an Israeli perspective). I thought for sure that you were talking about Zionist brigading, since that's so obvious on this (and most) sites.
It's not the same as all, whatever you think of the Ukraine, it used to be part of the Soviet Union. Russia and the Ukraine fighting is a "normal" war. The US has absolutely no business attacking Iran. It's entirely unprovoked and at the behest of the terrorist "nation" of Israel, which also should have nothing to do with the US.
> The US has absolutely no business attacking Iran.
Iran's theocratic regime just murdered tens of thousands of protestors, regularly organizes chants of "Death to America", calls the US "The Great Satan", sponsors terror organizations all around the region, has (through their Houthi proxies) cut off critical sea lanes in one of the most strategic areas, is very close to developing nuclear weapons (with enough HEU already to build maybe a dozen bombs), has extensive ballistic missile magazines and expertise, and is working on ICBMs explicitly to reach the US homeland.
But oh yeah, this is totally unprovoked and the US has no business attacking Iran. Right.
It's amazing to see the justification done by some people to attack other sovereign countries. Did not america learn from the fake WMD fiasco with Iraq?
The IAEA estimates that Iran had 440.9 kg of uranium enriched to up to
60% before last year's Israeli-U.S. attacks - enough, if enriched further,
for 10 nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
The agency and Western powers believe the bulk of that is still intact.
Washington wants Tehran to give it up.
I seem to have missed the IAEA report on Iraq's 400+ kilos of HEU.
Jm2c but I wonder how people can be surprised that Iran wanted to build a nuclear weapon, especially after the US under Trump's first presidency pulled out the nuclear deal struck under Obama and cornered Iran even more.
Like do people in US realize that countries around the world take notes about what happened to the Libyas and Iraqs and many others (like Colombia recently) and see that the US will attack other countries with impunity.
The US feels threatened by Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and has the military force to stop them, probably. Diplomatic avenues bore no fruit. Military force is now being used to--hopefully--end the threat definitively.
Yes, of course we are aware of what happened to Ghaddafi. It's very en vogue to point out the game theoretical incentives to develop nuclear weapons.
But seemingly people never bring up South Africa's disarmament. And nobody ever mentions that game theory also incentivizes the US prevent their adversaries from developing nuclear weapons where possible.
Giving up or stopping development of nukes may invite attack. Refusing to stop developing them may also invite attack.
What I said is factual. We're already seeing pictures of murdered children coming out of Iran, just like we did with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon... Not a single shred of evidence has been produced to back the claim that Iran murdered anyone, let alone tens of thousands of people.
I'll save everyone the clicks: there's no evidence of Iran claiming they killed over 3000 people in any of these articles. There's a claim they said this, but as with all reporting about Iran, no proof. Also, 3000 is not "tens of thousands".
"The Human Rights Activists News Agency says it confirmed more than 7,000 deaths and that it is investigating thousands more. The government has acknowledged more than 3,000 killed, though it has undercounted or not reported fatalities from past unrest." - https://apnews.com/article/iran-campus-protests-crackdown-54...
'"I would put the minimum estimates to be 5,000 plus," Mai Soto, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on Iran, said in an interview with ABC Australia. Soto noted 5,000 dead is a "conservative" or "the minimum" estimate. Other credible estimates, she said, indicate as many as 20,000.' - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/02/20/how-man...
> as with all reporting about Iran, no proof.
In the same way there's no proof humans ever walked on the moon, I suppose.
It's constant deflection with you people. You can never actually address the facts head on; just deflect with "there's no evidence", pivot to "there's no proof", then cast aspersions on the most disagreeable messenger.
You have previously intimated that you are also in the United States. Should I dismiss your arguments because you're allegedly based in the US, too?
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